Sophia Recovery Centre Inc.
Charitable organization · Saint John, New Brunswick · BN 829140896RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,008,113) as filed with the CRA.
Sophia Recovery Centre Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saint John, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 40% from government, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $334K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $228K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Addiction recovery services include individual coaching and counseling structured recovery groups and range of informal programs. Drop in hours and activities at each centre provide safe spaces for women to make connections with peer support staff volunteers and each other.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1M | $728K | $28K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $772K | $686K | $485K | $34K | — | $540K |
| 2022 | $515K | $337K | $267K | $22K | — | $454K |
| 2021 | $74K | $67K | $47K | $745 | — | $276K |
| 2020 | $228K | $187K | $168K | $1,121 | — | $269K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $334K from 12 charities:
- United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc.$159K
- The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John$60K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$33K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,130
- Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation Inc.$2,350
- Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc.$2,000
- The Corporation of the Anglican Parish of Hammond River$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$158
- Canada Donates Inc.$101
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$680K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Atkinson (ex-officio); Greg Keith (treasurer); Tracy Meyer (vice president); Lynn Nagle (president); Mary Nagle (secretary); Diane Ganong (director); Kim Barker (director); Karen Palmer (director); Emilie Bourque (director); Julie Trites (director); Paula Nicholson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sophia Recovery Centre Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829140896RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.